Chapter 34

The grand ceremony of paying respects to the founder ended, and classes began the next day.

Before dawn, Little Wei Yuan finished washing and went to the small square at the entrance of the valley to wait. The place for class was Qisi Hall, thirty miles away from the valley. Every morning at a fixed time, a carriage would come to pick up the new disciples to Qisi Hall. If they missed the time, they would have to go by themselves.

When Little Wei Yuan arrived at the square, he saw several carriages parked there. The horses pulling the carriages were a kind of snow-white tall horse, one zhang five high at the shoulder, with faint clouds scattered at the four hooves. Each carriage had a different emblem on its body, which would go to different destinations. Little Wei Yuan soon found the carriage to Qisi Hall, checked his identity with the driving cultivator, and got on the carriage.

This carriage was two zhang high, like a moving small building, and the interior was very spacious, with rows of seats, enough to hold fifty people. After Little Wei Yuan got on the carriage, others got on one after another, and after twenty or so people got on, no one else got on.

After everyone arrived, the cultivator closed the carriage door and drove away from the square.

As soon as he left the valley, Little Wei Yuan suddenly felt as if he had been stepped on his chest by someone heavily, and his body was firmly stuck to the back of the chair and could not move! The scenery outside the carriage window retreated rapidly in an instant, but the carriage body was unusually stable, with only slight vibrations.

Little Wei Yuan finally recovered from the pressure, and before he could take two breaths, the carriage body suddenly shook, and his body flew forward uncontrollably again. Fortunately, he reacted very quickly, grabbed the back of the front chair, and supported it firmly, so he didn't hit it with his whole body. But other children were not so lucky. Some didn't react, and as a result, hit the front heavily, and their foreheads and faces were swollen.

For a time, screams and shrieks rose one after another in the carriage.

Amidst the screams, the scenery outside the window changed again, and a three-story pavilion appeared.

The carriage door opened, and the driving cultivator smiled and said, "The time was tight this time, and it ran a bit fast. If anyone is late tomorrow, it will run even faster."

Immediately, a boy with a blue and swollen forehead said dissatisfiedly, "A driver is so arrogant? Besides, the Primordial Palace is also stingy. What kind of broken carriage is this, without even a wind-driving array!"

The cultivator smiled, just pretending not to hear.

The boy wanted to say more, but was covered by his companion beside him.

Little Wei Yuan got off the carriage and saw the three characters "Qisi Hall" written on the plaque of the pavilion in front. The courtyard of Qisi Hall was very quiet, and a cluster of green bamboo was planted by the wall on the side. The leaves were dripping with green, and clear Qi rose from time to time among the bamboo leaves.

Little Wei Yuan followed the disciples into Qisi Hall and saw rows of desks placed inside, with his name flashing on one of them, so he went over and sat down.

After everyone sat down, a smiling young cultivator walked in from the side, who was the driving cultivator. He stood in front of the hall and said, "I am Feng Chutang. In the next year, I will be responsible for teaching 'General History of the Human Race'."

The boy who was just clamoring was shocked and didn't dare to raise his head.

The Primordial Palace attached great importance to this concentrated teaching, and the teachers sent were not ordinary people. It is said that several of the young teachers were geniuses expected to become True Lords. Even high-ranking families would try to win over these teachers if they could, and would never want to form an enmity for no reason. Every disciple of a gatekeeper family had been lectured by their elders before class, striving to leave a good impression on the teachers.

Fortunately, Feng Chutang didn't care about the small matter on the carriage and said, "The history of our human race can be traced back to thirty thousand years ago..."

The history of the human race recorded in historical materials can be traced back to thirty thousand years ago at the earliest, and there is no history to examine before that. At that time, the human race was just a small tribe among the myriad races, scattered in the territory of today's eastern Lu State and Hedong State, occupying only a few counties, surrounded by alien races.

At that time, the human race was weak, and many alien races not only invaded the borders to burn, kill, and loot, but some also used humans as food and sacrifices. Therefore, the first chapter of the general history of the human race is named "Alien Race Chapter," covering the first twenty thousand years of the human race.

Feng Chutang's voice was soft and gentle, and sections of ancient secrets of the human race were told by him. With his narration, several vivid images appeared in front of the lecture hall, which were a man, a woman, and two children. They were somewhat similar to the human race, but taller and stronger. The man was roughly a head taller than Feng Chutang, and the woman was equivalent to him. The boy was marked as ten years old, already as tall as an adult human male, and the girl was marked as six years old, equivalent to an eleven or twelve-year-old human child.

The most striking feature of these people was a pair of gray pupils, ears that were pointed and long, and four fingers on each hand.

"This is the Hanhai Liao race, which is what we often call the Liao people. Many books call them Northern Liao. In fact, this title is not accurate. The Liao people not only live in the north, but also have Hanhai Liao race distribution in the northeast and east. The Liao race is numerous, and the size of the tribes is as numerous as the stars. Just the countries that claim to be kings and set up systems are nine. Today, the border between the various Liao tribes and our Great Tang is one million five hundred thousand miles long, which can be said to be the alien race with the deepest entanglement with us."

"In ancient times, our entire human race was an alien small tribe in the eyes of the Hanhai Liao race. At that time, they would occasionally send troops to enter the border to grab some food and supplies, and only start killing when they encountered resistance. If they obediently offered supplies, they would often pass safely. Therefore, many people at that time chose to offer supplies to ensure peace. Occasionally, some nobles of the Liao race wanted to hunt for fun. At that time, the human tribe had to send a team of warriors to enter the designated hunting ground to act as prey, which could run away or resist. If they didn't die in the end, they would be rewarded."

Many students in the seats were very angry. Most of them were from high-ranking families, proud and arrogant, and it was difficult to endure when they suddenly heard this dark history of ancient times.

There seemed to be something inexplicable in Feng Chutang's voice, saying, "The Hanhai Liao race does not eat people, nor does it kill indiscriminately. In their eyes, human women are ugly, so there are not many lewd and abusive things. In the first few tens of thousands of years, because many human tribes often offered supplies, the Hanhai Liao race gradually regarded the human race as a vassal tribe and protected them. If there was no initial protection from the Hanhai Liao race, there might not have been the human race later."

"Compared with other alien races, the Hanhai Liao race can be regarded as the most generous and gentle to the human race. Although the human race is inferior, they can also live. In this way, the ancestors of the human race endured humiliation and carried heavy burdens, multiplying and living, until the outbreak of the war between the Wu Yu race and the Hanhai Liao race."

"At that time, our human territory was located at the edge of the border between the two races. The location was not very important originally, and there were several True Lords in the tribe at that time, so the strength was not too weak, and it was enough to defend the land. Therefore, the Hanhai Liao race handed over this defense to the human race and transferred the main army to the west. But they didn't expect that the human race would open the border pass and let the Wu Yu race drive straight in, copying the rear of the Liao army."

Including Little Wei Yuan, everyone was shocked. History was Little Wei Yuan's strong point, so he asked, "Sir, didn't the Wu Yu race always use our human race to sacrifice to heaven?"

(End of chapter)